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7.50PM FRIDAY MARCH 13TH​​​​​​​
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MISSISSIPPI​
MASALA
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Yes, you read that right: the mother of New York City’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, is acclaimed director Mira Nair. Between creating landmark works such as Caméra d’Or–winning and Oscar-nominated Salaam Bombay! and the Golden Lion and Golden Globe–winning Monsoon Wedding, Nair crafted this wonderfully luminous, big-hearted, sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love’s power to transcend racial prejudice, now finally enjoying a well-deserved revival.
After Mina’s (Sarita Choudhury - The Green Knight, Homeland, And Just Like That…, Fallout) Indian family are exiled from their home by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, they relocate to Mississippi to begin anew. Now in her twenties, Mina falls for the dashing young carpet cleaner Demetrius (Denzel Washington - Training Day, Philadelphia, American Gangster), despite her family’s fierce objections to their relationship. Their passionate romance unfolds amid the broader cultural tensions between Mississippi’s Indian and African American communities, while Mina’s father (Roshan Seth – Gandhi, My Beautiful Laundrette, The Buddha of Suburbia) struggles to release his lingering attachment to the life he lost in Uganda.
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A romantic gem rich filled with humour and piercing insight, Mississippi Masala explores identity, displacement, colourism, community, prejudice, family, and generational divides. It is a gorgeously irresistible yet honest ode to the melting pot of American society, as well as a moving portrait of individual emotional reckoning.
Beautifully shot in warm, glowing tones with intimate, naturalistic cinematography, the film looks spectacular in this new restoration. making this modern classic more effervescent than ever. We can’t wait to welcome you to this special screening of a truly underappreciated treasure of early ’90s cinema.
7.40PM THURSDAY MARCH 19TH​​​​​​​
PAUL SCHRADER'S
AMERICAN GIGOLO
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It Is Still 1985 Brighton's legendary 80s party (every Saturday at Green Door Store) turns 18 this year. To celebrate the night 'coming of age' White Wall Cinema are collaborating with 1985 for a new season of films called 'Sex in the Eighties' starting with this Paul Schrader classic.​
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From writer–director Paul Schrader (screenwriter of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and director of Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters and First Reformed) comes a defining landmark of American style. Not only the key influence on American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, American Gigolo was the film that made Giorgio Armani and Richard Gere household names in the United States. Gere models a sensational array of Armani suits throughout, except when he doesn’t, as the film was also one of the first mainstream Hollywood productions to feature frontal male nudity from its leading man. Featuring an effortlessly cool score by electronic disco legend Giorgio Moroder and the No. 1 soundtrack hit “Call Me” by Blondie, this 1980 masterpiece was a game-changer that set the tone for an entire decade.
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Living in his minimalist Los Angeles apartment (before minimalism was even a thing) Julian Kaye (Gere) is the embodiment of cultivated taste: impeccably dressed, fluent in several languages, and devoted to the finer things in life. A high-class escort Julian finances his lavish lifestyle catering to a roster of wealthy women, and cultivates a carefully maintained sense of emotional detachment. But when he begins a relationship with the wife of a powerful senator and is framed for a murder he did not commit, his meticulously controlled world begins to unravel.
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Slick yet substantive, Schrader never allows the high design and neon glow of the 1980s to overshadow the film’s European art-house sensibility or the moral gravity of its subject. Sophisticated and coolly detached yet charged with undercurrents of passion, American Gigolo is a tautly restrained melodrama and is one of the defining films of its era as well as an enduring icon of 80s style. Beautifully restored in 4K for the first time, it remains a ravishing work that radiates understated opulence from every frame and demands big screen viewing.
8PM FRIDAY MARCH 27TH​​​​​​​
THE HITCHER
(1986)
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This rip-roaring vehicular thriller roars proudly in the tradition of motorway-stalking cult classics like Duel and Road Games - but The Hitcher boasts a far more potent secret weapon: the maniacal menace of Blade Runner legend Rutger Hauer.
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Tasked with transporting a car cross-country, young motorist Jim Halsey (C. Thomas Howell, of The Outsiders fame) begins to nod off behind the wheel and makes a decision that proves catastrophically misguided, he picks up a hitchhiker for company. The stranger (Hauer) calmly claims to be a killer, and although Jim manages to force him from the vehicle, any sense of relief is short-lived. What follows is a relentless descent into terror as the hitchhiker’s full psychopathic mania is unleashed. With the help of truck-stop waitress Nash (Jennifer Jason Leigh, later of The Hateful Eight and Single White Female), Jim is thrust into a desperate fight for survival.
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Hauer is electrifying. Weaponising his trademark wild-eyed intensity, he delivers a performance that feels almost supernatural, an embodiment of random cruelty and unstoppable destruction. He doesn’t simply play a villain; he becomes an elemental force stalking the asphalt.
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Despite unleashing one brutal set piece after another, The Hitcher remains lean, mean, and stripped to the bone. It plays like a sun-scorched fever dream, ruthless, existential, and soaked in dread. Marrying eerie, uncanny atmosphere with unapologetic B-movie thrills, it stands as a rare genre piece that is both artfully minimal, pulse-poundingly savage with a lingering stylistic mood that’s hard to shake. The Hitcher is a perfectly calibrated, tension-soaked Friday night big screen treat.
7.20PM GOOD FRIDAY APRIL 3RD​​​​​​​
GHOST WORLD
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The beloved adaptation of Daniel Clowes’ underground comic Ghost World is our White Wall Cinema Good Friday special. Directed by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb), the film perfectly captures the acerbic wit, deadpan humour, and teenage angst of its two lead characters, effortlessly portrayed by Thora Birch (American Beauty) and Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation, Under the Skin). They’re joined by screen legend Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs, The Big Lebowski), delivering one of his most memorable performances.
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When misfit friends Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson) graduate from high school, they find themselves adrift in the malaise of a long, post-graduation summer. Beyond enrolling in an art class, adulthood feels frustratingly out of reach, but at least they still have each other. Their fragile bond begins to fray when the cynical duo prank a lonely, middle-aged record collector (Buscemi). What starts as a joke gradually becomes something more complicated, as one of them forms an unexpected attachment that drives a wedge between the pair.
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Wryly observed and darkly hilarious, Ghost World is a film for anyone who has ever felt out of place, who never quite fit in or earned a seat at the popular table. Widely regarded as one of the finest coming-of-age films of the 2000s, it has maintained a devoted cult following for more than two decades. A sharp satire of consumerist America and a bleakly funny yet deeply endearing portrait of adolescent alienation, Ghost World endures through its parade of oddball characters, its Oscar-nominated screenplay, and its eclectic soundtrack of vintage obscurities. Ghost World has more than earned its place as one of the twenty-first century’s most fiercely beloved comedies sand as our Good Friday Bank Holiday special.
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